{"id":4588,"date":"2010-09-04T03:20:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T03:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2010-09-04T03:20:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T03:20:45","slug":"only-three-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/only-three-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Three Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Moscow-Jan-95-Photo-AS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Moscow-Jan-95-Photo-AS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Moscow, Jan 95 (Photo AS)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4625\" \/><\/a>In the course of its long history, the Russian Orthodox Church has not been on, so to speak, the side of the angels quite as often as perhaps it should have been, but this account (extracted from a recent <em>Spectator<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/books\/6215113\/out-of-the-woods.thtml\">review<\/a> of the memoirs of a Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9) of priestly courage is too fine not to be retold here: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An account of an anti-religious rally in 1918 is particularly striking. The chairman innocently grants a village priest\u2019s request to say \u2018only three words\u2019:<\/p>\n<p><em>The priest climbed up to the podium \u2026 and called out in a loud voice, \u2018Christ is arisen!\u2019 And as if with one voice came the response, \u2018Truly, He is arisen!\u2019 The old man was immediately arrested.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is not, I suppose, too difficult to guess his eventual fate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the course of its long history, the Russian Orthodox Church has not been on, so to speak, the side of the angels quite as often as perhaps it should have been, but this account (extracted from a recent Spectator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/only-three-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[90],"tags":[619,560],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4627,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions\/4627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}